Author's Note: Wow...gomen mina...it's been forever since I last updated this. My mind went blank. Although I knew what I wanted to write, I just couldn't put it down to words. All of you should give a HUGE thanks to my little sister: Sakura's Tsuki. She Wrote most of this chapter and part of the next and gave me tips as to what should happen next. So...I'm back and ready to continue

Disclaimer: If I owned Naruto...Sakura and Deidara would have a few moments here and there...wink

Requested by: Crazy Neko Girl

Special Thanks: From here on out, I have to give special thanks to Megumi-Sachou and my sister. Both of them gave me idea's to make this story as unique as possible

Huge Thanks:To Sakura's Tsuki, my little sister for helping me with this chapter. huggies

Collide: A Deidara and Sakura Story

Eyes opened slowly, trying to adjust to the dimness of the room. They closed again as it's owner cringed in pain only to open them again moments later. Confusion set across her face as she tried to figure out what had happen….and as if on que, that last memory she had before falling unconscious came back at full force.

"Dei-kun" She whispered sadly as she lowered her head. Her hair hung loosely over her face and when she tried to reach to pull it away…it was then she realized that she was restrained. She gasped as she looked and noticed that her arms were tied above her head on either side. She struggled against the ropes to free her self but it seemed as if her effort were only hopeless.

"Ah….I see that you have finally woken up. Now I guess that means I could start to kill you." Sakura turned her head slow in the direction of where she heard the voice. Slowly stepping out of the shadows…walking towards her…was the one person she'd NEVER expect. The love of her life and childhood friend.

"Dei-kun….why…please tell me why are you doing this?" She pleaded as she looked at him. Fear, disbelief, sadness and disappointment…almost every emotion possible crossed her face as he drew closer to her. The opposite expressions showed on his face. No matter how many times she tried…she couldn't figure out just why he held so much hate towards her and because of not knowing…her sense of disappointment only grew.

Taking a few more steps towards her, he stopped only inches from her….bring his face only centimeters from hers. His hot breath breathed down her neck as he whispered in her ears.

"You're asking me why? I trusted you….I never expected you to be like them…lies…always lying to me. You betrayed me and I want nothing more then for you to suffer the way I have. I want you to die!" He shouted the last sentence as he slammed his fist against the wall next to her head. With in seconds, before she could utter a word, he slashed her across her abs. Sakura cried out in pain as she felt the kuni rip across her skin. Her eyes widen in horror as she looked into the cold and uncaring eyes of the man who had slashed her. He was serious, she now realized. Before…she was in shock…it didn't cross her mind at all that he'd actually do this to her. She thought may be he'd tell her what caused him to feel this way….and that she'd give him her side of the story. But from the looks of it, there would be no talking…and if he continues like this, she would positively die at his hands.

Absolutely nothing was making sense. Why he would leave Konoha, why he would join this group, why he would want to kill her….and how did she betray him? So many questions and quite honestly she felt that she would die before receiving an answer. Just as she was about to speak, he continued to slash her with the Kuni. Next was her shoulder, then her leg. Quickly she noticed that he was purposefully hitting all her non-vital spots. Her horror at that moment grew. He was serious about torturing her before finally killing her. The pain was becoming increasingly unbearable and she struggled to remain in control. If she were to die tonight, she wouldn't give him the satisfaction of dying weak.

"Please….I honestly don't know what I did wrong…tell me why you are so upset…Dei-kun.." Sakura pleaded quietly as she looked at him…hoping that he'd stop slashing her long enough to keep a conversation with her. Within that time, she would hopefully be able to heal all her wounds….cause at the rate he was going…and the depths of all the cuts…she was having a hard time keeping up and she was slowly losing a lot of blood.

"Please….let's talk about this. Clearly I don't know why you are upset and if I have honestly done something to hurt you….I'd like to know just what I did wrong to you. I think I have the right to know that." She continued as she looked at him…not in a treating matter….nor in a begging or pleading matter. But as calmly as she could musted He then roughly grabbed her from the collar and pulled her close to him until they faces were only centimeters apart.

"There's nothing to talk about." He whispered bitterly into her ear as he pushed her back and then began to take the kunai and slowly dragged it into her flash, slowly pull along side her chest. Sakura bite her lower lips as it trembled, keeping her from screaming out in pain. She closed her eyes and tried to block out the pain that she was feeling. NEVER in her wildest dreams would she ever find herself in this kind of situation and with the man of her dreams being the one torching her.

"Dei-kun, please let's talk about this." She asked again in hopes to reach his better nature. There HAD to be a reason why he felt so bitter towards her. She thought many times over and over again in her mind thinking about what it was that she said or did to him to make him hate her so much to the point that he wanted her dead.

He then took her head in his hand and slammed it against the wall behind her. If she wasn't as strong as she was that hit alone would have killed her. She then coughed out blood and tears welled up in her eyes as she gasped for air. Before she had a chance to say another word or heal herself, he took several katanas and impaled one of her legs to the floor. At that point she could no longer hold it in as she let out a loud scream.

Blood covered her leg as it trembled, resulting in the wounds getting larger. Deidara then grabbed Sakura's chin roughly and looked at her coldly and with disgust.

"Don't act like you have no idea what I'm talking about." He said with hate in his voice "You of all people should know what I'm talking about, so don't freaken mess with me and play the victim."

"I'm not playing, I really don't know what your talking about." She said as she tried to talk long enough so that she could at lest heal a few of her wounds. He then got up and walked around the cabin pacing and going into his own thoughts.

"You know…" He started to say as he continued to walk around the cabin tossing a kunai in his hand casually. Sakura's eyes widen in horror as she could only guess where that kunai was going to end up on her body.

"You know, I thought for many years, thinking of what I was going to do to you if ever we should met up again, then I thought well, what would happen if you ever should repent and ask for forgiveness. And if it came to that then I would still torture you only a little and I would spare your life. That's what I thought. However, if you ever desided to play the victim and blame me then I would make sure that you die the slowest and most painful way I could image and I could image a lot of things."

"Dei-kun…I-" Sakura started to talk but was then silenced when he stop tossing the kunai and held it up, silently telling her to keep quiet.

"You wanted to talk about it, so lets talk about it." He said with a evil grin on his face as he begin to walk towards her. "Lets talk about how you abandon me and broke my heart, lets talk about how lonely I felt when you left me, lets talk about the lies you told me that we would always be in touch, lets about talk about all the unanswered letters I sent you, lets talk about all the unreceived phone calls I got." He stop right in front of her and grabbed her hair and pulled her head up to see him.

"And lets not forget to talk about that kiss you had with that guy tonight under our special tree." He said with hate and disgust. "Did I leave anything out?" He asked in an eerily calm voice.

Sakura's eyes widen in compete shock and horror, the others she could explain calmly to him and hopefully he would understand, but the kiss with Naruto…she was completely taken back that he was there watching them. She didn't know how she was going to explain that to him. But she had to at lest try.

"Dei-kun-" She began softly.

"SHUT THE HELL UP!! STOP CALLING ME THAT, I'M NOT YOUR DEI-KUN ANYMORE!!" He shouted as he took two kunai's and impelled both of Sakura's arms to the wall. She let out a shout of pain and grasp for air as she tried to keep focus. It was at that moment she noticed something that caught her eye, something that she wasn't suppose to see, something that Deidara never wanted her to see. For a brief moment when she called him that, she saw in his eyes a hint of pain and sadness. Her eyes widen, even though he claimed to hate her why would he be so sad unless….

"I'm…sorry…Dei-kun." She said as she lower her head to the ground. Deidara's eyes widen in disbelieve for a moment before returning to the normal emotionless expression as before.

"It's too late, Sakura." He said in a low voice as he looked down on her, his void of any emotion.

"No, I don't think it is." She said in a low voice as she looked up at him with hope filled eyes. "Please listen to me, let me explain."

"I already told you…if you remember anything about me-" he was cut off by Sakura who added in a low soft voice.

"You hate to repeat yourself."

"Right, so you should also already know that there's nothing to talk about."

"Your wrong, Dei-kun." She said in low and despite voice "I never abandoned you, I still-"

"SHUT UP!! SHUT THE HELL UP!!!" He shouted as he covered his ears to block out her words, walking away from her. "LIES, MORE LIES, STOP LYING TO ME!!"

"I'm not lying to you Dei-kun, I would never lie to you, you have to believe that." She said in a low and weak tone in her defense. He turned to her and gave her a cold look as he started to walk to her again with a killer's intent.

"Your not lying? You've never lie to me?" He said as he was now inches away from her. "You think I'm stupid? You think that talking sweetly to me, will make me feel better? I told you Sakura, I want you to suffer the same way that I did, I want you to remember the person that you abandon, I want you to think about how much pain I felt when I saw you…with him. Think about what you did. pray and repent!"

"Dei-kun, please stop thinking that I abandoned you, why would I do such a thing to you?" She pleaded as she looked up at him...tears rimming the corner of her eyes.

"Shut up." He said in a low voice as he held a katana in his hand. "SHUT THE HELL UP!!! AND DDDDIIIIIIEEEE!!!!!!" He shouted as he impaled her other leg and abdomen with several katanas. Sakura at that moment could no longer hold in her pain as she let out a blood-curdling scream that echoed in the night's sky.

With Naruto

Naruto was still in the woods walking and thinking about what had happened between him and Sakura. He couldn't just let it end like that, he loved her very much and he felt bad that he had upset her and left her alone. Finally deciding to go back, he stopped in his track, turned around and headed back to the tree where he left her. By the time he got back there, she was gone. He stood there bewildered as to what could have happened to her.

"Sakura-chan, where did-" he was cut off when he heard a loud blood-curdling scream and black birds flew off in the distance. "What the hell?" He quickly turned to where he thought he heard it from.

"Wait, that sounded like…."

"Sakura." A deep voice said close to him, Naruto turned around to see Sasuke giving him an stern look.

Naruto's eyes widen in shock to find that Sasuke was there with him.

"Why are you...?" He began but was inturpted.

"I'll explain later, we have to find Sakura, I think she's in trouble." He said as he quickly took off to where Sakura's voice was coming from. Naruto stood there only for a brief moment before following after Sasuke. Though he looked to be in control on the outside, deep within him, he was on the verge of breaking down.

Back with Sakura and Deidara

Sakura's eyes dimmed and she was losing conscientiousness, she no longer had the will to live in her and all she wanted to do was die. Her main reason for going on this mission was to be reunited with her love and have a storybook ending with him. However, now she was waking from her sweet dreams to the reality at hand, even though half of her wanted to believe that it was lie, that she was just in some nightmare she'll soon awake from, she knew better. She knew that it wasn't going to come true. She believe that it was truly her last moments on earth and if there was one thing she wanted more then anything it was to have Deidara know the whole truth. At this moment, Deidara was across the room on a chair rocking it back and forth, only on occasion looking back at her with cold and unfeeling eyes.

Sakura coughed up some blood before gathering the last of her strength, she finished healing the wound on her abdomen. She looked at herself, despite the fact that she was on the verge of dying, she notice that he still refuse to hit her in her vital spots, instead he was far away from her not paying her any mind. If he truly wanted to he could end her live right now, she was in no position to fight back nor did she have the strength to do so, so why was he still holding back?

"Why are you still holding back?" She asked him in such a low voice that he could barely hear her. He turned to her still in his chair and let out a sigh before looking away again.

"You lost the will to fight, plus you're going to die anyway." He then turned to her and gave her a smirk "You must be in so much pain right now, I want to enjoy these last minutes hearing you confess to everything that you did to me, hearing you finally telling me that I was right and that you did betray me and ruined my life." He then paused and for the second time that night, he gave her the same look that was full of pain and sadness, a look that was secretly begging her to tell him that he was right with what he said, that he had a perfectly good reason for wanting to kill her and that she WAS the main reason for his suffering. To him, she did do everything that he claim of her doing…he's eyes were begging of her to put his trouble and confused heart to rest so he can finally move on.

She gave him a look of forgiveness as she gave him a small smile of her own. "I'm sorry to disappoint you, Dei-kun, but I think I'm ready to tell you everything now….it's the least I can do, to put you out of your suffering." She laughed a bit before coughing out some more blood, "I'm sorry to have made you suffer, but I think that what I'm about to tell you will only make you suffer more."

At hearing that, Deidara got up from his chair and stormed to her. He got down to her eye level and leaned in to hear what she had to say.

"Anything is better then the hell you put me though for all these years." He said in a dark tone as he waited for her to talk.

"I'm sorry, Dei-kun, I'm so sorry." She started as tears started to flow down her checks. "But the truth is, I never stopped thinking about you." She paused and looked at Deidara, his eyes narrowed and he looked like he wanted to hit her, but she continued before he had a chance to.

"I wrote to you everyday, I called you every night…but it was always the same thing, leaving messages on the answering machine, unanswered letters. I kept some letters that I wrote to you, I wrote poems, I never stopped thinking about you...ever. Even when you saw and me and Naruto at the tree, I was telling him the story about the tree and I told him about us and how that was our special tree…." She paused for a moment to catch her breath before she continued "I'm sorry, I truly did not mean to kiss him…it was just that at that moment, he reminded me so much of how you were, that I got carried away. After that he told me that he loved me and he wanted me to go out with him, but when I told him that I wanted you. He got upset and said a few words about you and I got upset and hit him…. I know that he only cares about my happiness, but I can't allow anyone to talk badly about you."

"Your words sound pretty, but I still think you're lying to me." Deidara said with an uncaring tone.

"I have no reason to lie to you." She said back in her defense

"You have plenty of reason to lie to me." He retorted

She then let out a sigh as her vision soon gave way to her, blindness….soon death. "I had a feeling that this would protect me, that's why I always carry them." She said with a smile

"What are you talking about?" he asked as he gave her an confused look.

"I don't know what more I can say to you for you to believe me, but at least let me give you my most precious treasure, as a sign of my repent and pleads for forgiveness." She said in a low voice.

At this time, he knew that her vision was gone and that she was moments away from death. She had no more reason to lie to him, however his foolish pride refused to believe her words.

"My treasure is in my bag as well as the truth that you wish so much to be answered." She said just below a whisper.

His eyes widen at her words. The truth? She was actually carrying the answers that he so desperately wanted to find out. He did as he was told and reached for her back and brought it out in front of him. He unzipped it and blindly reached in, what he felt next, made his eyes widen in horror, shock and disbelief. He felt his heart stopped and his body ran cold and numb as time seemed to stop all together. He was almost hesitant to pull it out, but part of him wanted to know, could it be that?….there was no way it could be that! He slowly begin to pull out the item in his hand and when he finally saw what it was, his worse nightmares came true…because there in his hand was the same bear that he gave to Sakura all those years ago.

At hearing the gasp escape his throat, she concluded that he found it. She coughed a little bit before she continued in a weak voice."That is my most precious treasure, I want no one else to have it but you...Dei-kun."

"Sakura…it's lie..this...this isn't real…this can't be…" He said in disbelief, there had to be something else, something that can prove him right, there had to something else! He reached in again and the next thing he pulled out made him him realize...that this was NOT a dream or nightmare...in fact if was much worst then that. It was real. In his hand was the pack of letters and small notes tied together with a pink ribbon, that she was talking to him about.

"I had a feeling that you never got the ones that I send you so I decide to make copies that I could share with you if we ever met again, but I guess I won't get a chance to, I'm sorry Dei-kun. Please forgive me."

"Sakura….Sakura-chan." He said as tears started to flow down his checks….the cruel realization of what he did, hit him all too fast. He based the last few years building up his hate for her, when she never once thought of him in that way and now the fact that he was here in front of the woman that he loves, watching as she dies by his hands.

"Sakura-chan, stay with me, I'm sorry forgive me, please forgive me for not believing you." He said as he panicky tried to release her. He manged to first remove the kunai's and katana's from her arms, then legs and finally her abdomen. He looked though her bag and noticed bandages and medicine. He quickly ran to get water and came back in moments. He worked quickly to clean and cover her wounds and was now holding her in his arms.

"Sakura-chan, stay with me, okay? I fixed your wounds so you're going to be ok now….please forgive me for what I've done...please...please forgive me. I should have never doubted you. Please forgive me!" He begged as he began to rock her in his arms silently praying for her to live. She smiled as she very weakly raised her hand to his check.

"Are you crying?" She asked as she blindly looked at him and smiled weakly. "There's no need for you to cry, I understand, there's nothing to forgive, you were just scared and hurt, I already knew. It's ok, you don't have to be scared anymore." She said kindly as she stroked his cheek. He then took her hand in his and gave it a sweet kiss.

"Dei-kun, there's something I want to tell you." She said as she breathing became weaker.

His eyes widen in horror as he knew the more energy she used to speak , the less time she had left. 'No' He thought as he could feel the life leaving her.

"Don't speak Sakura-chan. Just stay with me." He pleaded as he continued to rock her in his arms. Tears upon tears rolling down his cheeks.

"I wish I could." She said as tears of her own flowed down her checks. Her breathing became more ragged and wheezy.

'No' He thought as he tried his best to fight back the urge to scream his lungs out.

"Dei-kun….I…." She started as her breath become just above a whisper

'No' He shouted in his mind. How he wanted time to stop right here and now! He knew...he knew what she was going to say...and he knew that those would be the last words he'd ever hear her say...

"I love you." And with that her hand dropped from his and his eyes widen as horror and his vision became blurry as tears overshadowed his eyes. At that moment he lost all control. He then realized what happened as it sink in all to quickly. He then grabbed Sakura close to him, holding her tightly as if she'd disappear in thin air if he'd let go.

"No….No….NNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" He let out a heart wecking scream into the night sky.

"What was that?" Naruto asked as he stopped in his tracks. Sasuke also stopped and turned back to Naruto.

"I don't know, but I can't feel Sakura's chakra anywhere." He said in tone voice with a hint of worry.

"I hope nothing bad happened to her." Naruto said in a low voice as they both begin to run again in the direction where they last felt her chakra. They where now only a several meters of where Sakura was.

Deidara continued to rock Sakura in his arms, unaware that someone else was now in the cabin with him. He plead with Deidara to leave the body and move since he could feel Sasuke and Naruto coming closer and closer to the cabin.

Deidara was in so much shock that he couldn't even hear his partners pleads. At this time, Tobi knew that they had to leave to he grab Deidara and begin to leave.

"WAIT!" Deidara snipped as he yanked his arm away form Tobi's hand. He brought his attention to the teddy bear and pack of letters on the floor. He bended down and picked them up. "Please, watch over me." He whispered as he and Tobi left the cabin.

A few moments later Naruto and Sasuke arrived. They walked into the cabin and at first saw nothing, but when they walked in further, they're eyes grew wide in horror. Naruto's voice was the only one that would be heard that night.

"SAKURA-CHAN!!!!!!!!!!!!"